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Re:Relating t-statistics and the relative width of confidenc... by kgwgk on Monday March 11, 2024 @01:11PM (#39670814)
> many things we want to measure are not well-distributed to allow the CLT to hold

I guess that may be true for some values of "many" and "we" but most things we want to measure have finite variance.

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Re:Relating t-statistics and the relative width of confidenc... by baq on Monday March 11, 2024 @03:01PM (#39672078)
for some examples of "not-most" things - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cauchy_distribution#Occurrence...
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